Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Who's digging holes in my raised beds?

I've been so pleased with my kitchen garden this year. Not only is it looking productive, neat & tidy and relatively weed-free (apart from the ones I'm allowing to grow, such as borage and poppies), but I'm also hoping it's going to be really pretty this year!

Pretty fruits & herbs bed

However. Someone has been messing with me. A few days ago, having skipped joyfully down to admire my artwork, I was devastated to find lots of little mouse-sized potholes all over the peas & flowers bed! :'( They'd even dug up several nasturtiums, I think they'd been having a munch on the roots.

Mouse-sized holes

A repaired and watered nasturtium not looking to bright

My newly planted broccoli plants were completely annihilated.

Before

After

I didn't take any photos of the pothole damage because I just got started repairing it all straight away.

Peas & flowers bed now after repairs

I think I managed to salvage most of it, but it's spoilt the joyful anticipation I feel every time I trot down to the kitchen garden. >(

I have spotted several field mice hopping and skipping about down there among me veg, but we also have a LOT of birds, living in the woods as we do. In particular a noisy, but beautiful, male pheasant that struts around the garden almost every day, as well as lots and lots of pigeons.

About Me

Having been city dwellers most of our lives, the move to the countryside in the autumn of 2008 came as a bit of shock to my husband and I. Four years on and we're loving every minute. I've swapped my heels for Hunters and the take out menus for packets of seeds. I'm going to try and use this blog as a diary and a record of everything that goes on out here. I should perhaps add that I am English (married to a Swede - not of the vegetable variety), which is why I blog in English...